Two weeks ago (Valentine’s Day, to be exact) I was on the excellent 1013 Mainstreet on TBS eFM discussion translated works that focus on ‘love.’ With White Day just two weeks away, and another flurry of ‘love’ based giving on the horizon, I give you that broadcast. 120214_Charles
This weekend I had a chance to visit Sonagi Village in Suneung-ri, Seojong-myeon Yangpyeong. Sonagi Village is a 7.5 hectare (18.5 acre) outdoor literature park in Gyeonggi province. The village is the literary museum of noted Korean author Hwang Sun-won, who wrote Sonagi, Cranes, The Dog of Crossover Village, and a variety of other classic…
Today I’m lucky enough to be reviewing a rarity: The Drizzle and other Korean short stories. This is volume two of a ten volume series put together by Korean UNESCO. These are interesting volumes on several grounds, one of which are there unusual construction. In this series two authors are chosen per book, and the…
A PDF of Division Lit (by Pak Jae-sup) that is interesting mainly if you know Hwang Soon-Won’s work.
Times Magazine likes Hwang Sun-won’s “Lost Souls,” a compilation of three early collections of stories Hwang wrote from the late 1930s through to the 1950s, now published for the first time in English.